[Air-L] EXTENSION: Call for journal articles on African digital media research methods

[Alette Schoon]

Please note - We are extending the call for abstracts to Monday 30
September. Please include a short bio in your submission

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CALL FOR DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH METHODS JOURNAL ARTICLES - TO BE PUBLISHED
IN THE AFRICAN DIGITAL MEDIA REVIEW 2020

African Digital Media Review is published annually as a special edition of
the journal African Journalism Studies, published by Taylor & Francis. It
aims to explore the role of new digital technologies in African
communication contexts. The 2020 edition will be dedicated to digital media
research methods.

Scholars from across sub-Saharan Africa are encouraged to submit abstracts
for an article, as we hope to represent West, East, Central and Southern
Africa. We aim to include a mix of digital media research methods, and are
looking forward to diverse submissions such as:

•             online digital ethnographic approaches

•             large scale data analysis of social media analytics,

•             textual analysis of web media,

•             visual analysis of social media such as Instagram,

•             to small scale studies of apps and the communities that use
them.



We are particularly interested in debates around the methods best suited to
African contexts:

•             What are the epistemological challenges and ethical
conundrums that African socio-political environments present for the use of
specific digital media research methods?

•             How have methods from elsewhere been adapted to diverse
contexts on the continent?

PLEASE NOTE: Make sure your abstract focuses on the research METHODS you
followed – we have received a number of abstracts that focus on digital
media research, but highlight general findings instead of focusing on
methods. If you would like to modify your abstract to focus on research
methods you are free to resubmit within the new deadline

Also include a short bio.

If you have sent an abstract but did not submit a bio, please send both
again.

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Abstracts of 500 words need to be submitted by the 30th of September.
Please send them to digimethods at ru.ac.za   Once your abstract has been
selected, a completed article of 8000 words needs to be ready for peer
review by the end of January. This edition will be guest-edited by Tanja
Bosch, Harry Dugmore, Hayes Mabweazara and Alette Schoon.

Please see the guidelines for authors here
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=recq21